One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the lo… - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (18 October 1741 – 5 September 1803) was a French novelist, official and army general. He is chiefly remembered for his epistolary novel, Les liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons).

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Alternative Names: Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos • Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos • Choderlos de Laclos

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One hand was needed for power, the other for love: where is the orator that could aspire to grace in such a position?

L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider à la nature.

With men, you say yourself, infidelity is not inconstancy.

One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men. - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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